List of honorary grandmasters in chess
This list of honorary grandmasters in chess ( HGM or HWGM , English Honorary (Woman) Grandmaster ) lists those chess players who did not meet the requirements of the regular grandmaster title , but were otherwise able to achieve outstanding performance in chess.
The world chess federation FIDE has awarded the honorary grandmaster title since 1977 to players whose career had already peaked before the official award of the grandmaster title in 1950. The honorary grandmaster title is still included in the FIDE title regulations of 2005 and in the FIDE manual of the same year, but no longer afterwards. According to Christian Krause, member of the Technical Commission of FIDE and FIDE rating officer of the German Chess Federation, the FIDE rules committee decided in 2006 to abolish the HGMs, so that they came into force on July 1, 2007.
Since the World Chess Federation has not published a list of all (male and female) honorary grandmasters, the list may be incomplete. It is also unclear whether the titleholders are seen as regular grandmasters today.
Notes: The lists can be sorted : By clicking on a column header, the list is sorted according to this column, clicking twice reverses the sorting. Any combination can be achieved by clicking on several columns in a row.
The “Country” column usually indicates the affiliation at the time the honorary title was awarded.
Honorary Grand Master
Honorary Grand Master of Women
year | Surname | country | Born | Died | title |
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1984 | Krystyna Radzikowska | Poland | 02/05/1931 | 11/29/2006 | International champion of women |
1985 | Maria Albuleț | Romania | 06/10/1932 | January 17, 2005 | International champion of women |
1985 | Margareta Teodorescu | Romania | 04/13/1932 | 01/22/2013 | International champion of women |
1986 | Venka Asenova | Bulgaria | 10/17/1930 | 12/29/1986 | International champion of women |
1986 | Katarina Jovanović-Blagojević | Yugoslavia | October 31, 1943 | International champion of women | |
1986 | Henrijeta Konarkowska-Sokolov | Serbia | 12/14/1938 | International champion of women | |
1987 | Corry Vreeken | Netherlands | 12/22/1928 | International champion of women | |
1990 | Chantal Chaudé de Silans | France | 03/09/1919 | 09/05/2001 | International champion of women |
See also
literature
- Gino Di Felice: Chess International Titleholders, 1950–2016 , McFarland & Co., 2017. ISBN 978-1476671321 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ FIDE - TITLE REGULATIONS at the German Chess Federation , accessed on April 30, 2019.
- ↑ The suggestion for abolishing the title can be found here (PDF; 4.8 MB) on page 57 (English). Gerhard Hund spoke to Christian Krause at the beginning of 2010 about the abolition of the title. The four women are all regular WGM today.
- ↑ chessdryad.com , accessed June 11, 2009.
- ↑ a b c d e f anusha.com , accessed June 12, 2009.
- ↑ 74th FIDE Congress: Annex 14 - Qualification Commission Report At: fide.com, accessed May 19, 2010.